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• By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

  Ron Suskind

  Book, Fall, Media

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• The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

  Ron Suskind

  Party, Government, Two

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• Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Giving, President

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• I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

  Jayma Mays

  Mom, Growing Up, Fans

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• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mother, Real, Kids

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• Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what they are. Then accept that they constitute what you've believed until now, and that you can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin working to change subconscious and limiting beliefs into true expressions of your authentic self.

  Sue Thoele

  Light, Self, Expression

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• Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

  Tim Ferriss

  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Regard

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

  Simon Sinek

  Good Leadership, Easy, Bases

  Twitter post from May 07, 2015

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• The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

  Ronald Reagan

  Risk, Damage, Serious

  Letter to Majority Leader Howard Baker, November 16, 1983.

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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

  Robert Gober

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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• I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Reflection, Thinking, Talking

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• Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.

  Cass Sunstein

  Opportunity, Choices, Different

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• If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

  Rahul Gandhi

  India, Computer, Program

  "If India is computer, Cong is its default program: Rahul Gandhi". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. August 23, 2013.

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• I think anybody currently running for the presidency on the Republican side by default would be a huge improvement over Obama in every area, including foreign policy and the use of the military.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.

  Steven Novella

  Emotional, Comforting, Psychology

  "Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Podcast #285, www.sgutranscripts.org. December 29, 2010.

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• [The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending the government into shutdown and maybe default. But they won the majority of seats there because of various kinds of chicanery. They got a minority of the votes, but a majority of the seats, and they're using them to press forward an agenda which is extremely harmful to the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Party, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which is in fact routine - it's passed every year - which allows the government to borrow money, otherwise it can't function. If Congress does not approve this budget request, the government may have to default.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Real, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Stories, Way

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Government, Might

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Energy, Fiesta, Economy

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.

  Bob Harper

  Issues, Parent, Needs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Good Luck, Astrology

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• The Illuminati bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure no country defaults or tries to overthrow them. As long as private bankers, instead of governments, create money the human race is doomed. These bankers and their allies have bought everything and everyone.

  Henry Makow

  Country, World Government, Race

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